Nantucket, MA

PDF of print edition Sail Savvy       Kate Clarkson, Freya Cantwell, Della Bradt and Annabel Gould (from left to right) demonstrate their sailing proficiency during last Friday's Coffin Cup regatta in Polpis Harbor. More ... COVER STORY STRUGGLING WITH GROWING PAINS, OLD MADAKET SEEKS TO DEFINE ITSELF BY PETER B. BRACE INDEPENDENT WRITER       Colonel Bat Guano's former roost on Maine Avenue is a worry for residents of Old Madaket. The low, elongated one-story summer shack known as the Eel Skin Inn is in the hands of new owners and is targeted for an addition that is proposed to go out and up, an otherwise benign project elsewhere on t... More ... MADAKET yesterday and today COVER STORY BY STEVE SHEPPARD INDEPENDENT WRITER       Here, on the west end of the island, the essence of sea, sand and salt air surrounds an unassuming village where the landscape, simple cottages and way of life still speak of simpler times. You can't help but get sand in your shoes in Madaket, and no one out here minds if a few grains cross the th... More ... The home that housed a legend Madaket Millie's renovated cottage remains a landmark BY MARY LANCASTER INDEPENDENT WRITER       Piles of discarded scallop shells no longer fill the yard. A rustic ice cream stand run on the honor system for payment, hundreds of waddling, quacking ducks and numerous dog pens are gone from the landscape. Curling shingles have been replaced, and the once cluttered, rarely cleaned cottage is no... More ...